Shouldn’t Boyz in the Hood be banned also?
I cannot believe we are going to ban books and movies in the United States of America - the land of freedom of press.
AA will regret losing their history. No proof of what happened to their ancestors.
STOP THIS LUNACY NOW OR LOOSE YOUR COUNTRY!!!!!!
This is what happens when politics - especially the radical Fabian Socialist Left and their Jacobin Reign of Terror politics - supersedes all aspects of society and drowns out the arts, literature, Christianity, true education, and individual freedom.
The French Revolution revisted.
Malcolm Gladwell had interesting insight into SoS. Bottom line, he thinks that getting rid of it gets rid of a lot of minority culture and ingenuity in the face of bigotry and hardship/
I can’t believe we are trashing Robert E. Lee of all people. My God where does this end?
When the wife and I moved to Atlanta in 1970, GWTW was always playing somewhere. We decided to get see the movie at a drive-in theater. Big mistake. By the time it was dark enough to start the picture show, it was fairly late and the movie is so damned long, we were there until almost dawn.
erase slavery from history, and you’ll have no proof that it ever occurred...
I read the book. I thought it was great and tragic, as good in terms of literature as anything written by Jane Austen-— and I’m a Janeite.
The story about playing a maid vs. being a maid is well-known, but had nothing to do with playing Mammy.
Hattie McDaniel was not sent by the studio to the premiere in Atlanta because the theater was segregated. Clark Gable was going to boycott the event, but McDaniel pleaded with him to go. She said what mattered most was the success of the picture, and they could continue to fight segregation another day.
This seems more appropriate than ever:
A more relevant Gone with the Wind would focus on all the Confederate soldiers who were increasingly gone with the wind as they saw the war continue with no real sacrifice from most of the Dixie big shots.
“Tara†pictured in GWTW is actually “Woodlawn†in LaGrange, Tennessee roughly 30 miles East of Memphis. The Orpheum is located near Beale Street and is now dangerous because of the feral affirmative action population. They have bars on all the windows on the businesses downtown and most have to buzz you in when you enter. Memphis underreports crime to make the city look safer than it really is. Memphis is now 65% black and the counties East and South are thriving with white flight as the City Council of Memphis rapes the population with their corrupt practices. Even the Mid South Fair that was held in Memphis for almost 100 years had to move South because of the crime.
The “Al Jolson Story” was an excellent movie that was always shown on TV during the holiday season because of Jolson’s Jewish background. The movie, which had some excellent music, accurately depicted the Jolson character in blackface. Because of that, it became unacceptable, and I have not seen it in the past 40 years.
“Gone With the Wind” is one of my desert island DVDs.
GWTW part of Ted Turner’s Pride and Joy movie collection he owned. He loved his movie collection. We stayed in the the Omni on many trips to Atlanta in the 80’s-90’s and they had 2 screens (free to guests) and GWTW played daily.